Purpose
City Hive exists to improve transparency, accountability and decision-making across the investment management industry by making corporate culture and governance more visible, comparable and decision-useful.
City Hive
City Hive is the architect of ACT, the corporate culture standard for investment companies.
We help the investment industry understand how corporate culture shapes outcomes in firms that manage investments.
Companies that manage investments are entrusted with the savings, pensions and assets of the clients they serve.
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Force for Good
City Hive is committed to creating a positive impact across the investment management industry.
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Brave
City Hive engages in difficult conversations and challenges existing approaches.
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Intentional
City Hive focuses on practical, sustainable solutions.
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Pragmatic
City Hive works within the realities of the industry and focuses on what is achievable.
Our story
City Hive began with two people looking at the investment management industry from different perspectives. Between them, they saw something missing.
They saw an industry entrusted with delivering financial security for millions of people, but one that was paying too little attention to the link between the investment decisions being made on behalf of clients and the environment in which those decisions were being made.
City Hive grew from that insight: a belief that what happens inside investment management businesses can have a material effect on the people whose money they manage.
The movement
City Hive has built a model of industry-wide collaboration that brings together organisations and practitioners from across investment management who share our ambition to raise standards across the industry.
Our work is shaped with the industry, supported by the industry and increasingly embedded within it.
That growing network of people and organisations is the movement behind City Hive.
Our values
The corporate culture standard for investment companies.
Companies that manage investments are entrusted with the savings, pensions and assets of the clients they serve.